Aletheia's

(*grumbles* Stupid comment limit... Sorry for making it so long. :} This is what happen when you write wonderful comments and make me thinky. *g*)

this feels like it's mostly meant to showcase the hotness of the Winchesters
Scenes like Lana and soulless!Sam in "The Third Man", definitely. (And all this lacks consequence anyway. This had no real justification in the plot beyond fanservice, and on the other hand there are scenes that logically call for getting more or less naked - 10.22 The Prisoner, the scalpel against a T-shirt, wtf? - and yet they sacrifice the feasibility of scene for... what actually? not for keeping the rating low, certainly.)

"we didn't bother actually writing a character, but strong women are feminists and sexy, so everybody's pleased, right ?"
If it means such as Pamela, I'm certainly not among pleased... *g* Sadly, many feminist critics aren't without the guilt in it, because that's what happens when the emphasis is put (and it often is, at least in Internet discussions) on 'strong' before all. 'Strong woman' has become synonymous for 'well written woman' as opposed to 'weak = stereotypically female = poorly written'. Of course, it's rather poor critical thought, but well, simplifications - often harmful simplifications - are usually what spreads the most and has the biggest influence.

it is pretty clear she, at least metaphorically, was the top in that scene. It is SUCH an m-preg episode, only without the m-preg...
Literally, too. I disagree about m-preg, though. It works only if we assume 'preg' as equal to lower and weaker by definition (or especially: being made weaker), and I don't think we should make or accept such meaning. I rather see it as the 'preg' element manifesting as powerful, if not nice and fluffy. Female puts the male down, he's a stud being used, his only useful features being male ones, and thrown away, no longer useful for anything, end of story. I think less seahorse, more lady spider. ;)